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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: rainbow problems
Summary: OOPS!!
Message-ID: <3306@rti.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 89 18:22:20 GMT
References: <4438@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <4438@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, dkonerding@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> 	Hello, folks.  I've got a small problem with a Rainbow.  I was looking
> around the science department in my high school and found an ancient Rainbow
> MSDOS/CP/M machine with about 128k of memory.  I've told the my chem teacher
> that I could hook it up to a printer and he'd be able to process words on it. 
                               ^^^^^^^
> I've had some problems:

I missed this the first time around.  If you don't already have a printer
for the Rainbow, you can't use the typical PC printer (which is a parallel
device) - you need a serial printer.  The recommended DEC printers to use
with the Rainbow were the LA50 and the LA75 (updated LA50), and the LQP
series (daisy wheel printers and not recommended any more).  If you can't
find an LA50/LA75 availalbe cheap, you might be able to shop around for a
serial printer elsewhere -- or buy a serial-to-parallel converter, which
is a little hardware box that converts from one to the other.

Sorry if this causes you problems ...

						Bruce C. Wright